Carly Simon Honors Sisters Joanna & Lucy In Poignant Assertion – Deadline

Pop celebrity Carly Simon paid tribute to her sisters – opera singer Joanna Simon and Broadway composer Lucy Simon – who every died of most cancers final week inside at some point of the opposite.

In a press release obtained by Deadline, Carly says:

I’m crammed with sorrow to talk about the passing of Joanna and Lucy Simon. Their loss might be lengthy and haunting. As unhappy as today is, it’s inconceivable to mourn them with out celebrating their unimaginable lives that they lived.

We have been three sisters who not solely took turns blazing trails and marking programs for each other, we have been every others secret shares. The co-keepers of one another’s recollections. I’ve no phrases to clarify the sensation of abruptly being the one remaining direct offspring of Richard and Andrea Simon.

They touched everybody they knew and people of us they’ve left behind might be fortunate and honored to hold their recollections ahead.

With nice and everlasting love and respect.

Carly Simon

Joanna Simon died at 85 of thyroid most cancers final Wednesday, Oct. 19, in New York Metropolis. Lucy Simon, the composer of Broadway’s The Secret Backyard, died the next day of metastatic breast most cancers at her residence in Piermont, New York. The sisters misplaced their brother Peter Simon, a famous photographer, in 2018 when the youngest Simon sibling died at 71 of cardiac arrest whereas battling most cancers.